Monthly Archives: June 2018

Keen observers might’ve noticed that andres.com has a new coat of paint. I’d been meaning to do that for a few years. The last time I designed this site was in 2010, and it was showing its age, appear­ing comi­cally small on my nice iMac at home, and nearly unread­able on a phone. The new design should scale dynam­i­cally for whatever device you’re on. It’s also a bit more tactile than the old one; my hope is that it feels like one of those expen­sive Leucht­turm music note­books. Above, a little sketch­ing I did in ink last summer. As always, if you feel something’s not looking as it should, please let me know. These changes always spawn endless kinks to be ironed out.

More excit­ingly, this redesign includes a store. I’d been meaning to do this for a while, too; now all my music is conve­niently avail­able in one place, and that’s right here on this website. Each indi­vid­ual works page has purchase buttons at the bottom which will order you up either a PDF download or a fresh on-demand printed score courtesy of Black Ribbon. Each piece also has score previews, so you can go back and see how poor my engrav­ing was 10 years ago.

I’ve also taken the oppor­tu­nity to dig through the archives and post more record­ings and other odds and ends, as well as scuttle a few things under the rug, where they shall remain. Click around enough and you might just find some­thing inter­est­ing.

Though I’m far from skilled as a web designer, I’ve enjoyed the process of building this website immensely—in fact it’s become some­thing of an obses­sion over the past couple of months. It feels nearly trans­gres­sive to be making a personal website in 2018, when so much of the internet seems to be careen­ing towards corpo­rate mono­cul­ture. It’s so calming to have a clean, well-lighted place to call one’s own, and to receive visitors. Or you could also make it dark and grimy! The point is, it’s entirely your choice.

Was recently alerted to this excel­lent perfor­mance of Crashing Through Fences, by Emma Resmini and Zubin Hathi. Quite pleased with the overall blend of delicacy and savagery, as well as the wonder­fully symmet­ri­cal compo­si­tion.